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Coalition Vows 'Deliberate' Response to Attacks
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| John D. Banusiewicz
Posted on 04/01/2004 9:44:15 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
Coalition Vows 'Deliberate' Response to Attacks
By John D. Banusiewicz American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 1, 2004 A "deliberate, precise, overwhelming" response awaits the insurgents who killed four American contractors and five U.S. soldiers March 31, the coalition's military spokesman said at a Baghdad news conference today. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7, promised an appropriate, if not immediate, military reaction. escorting a food convoy in Fallujah, Iraq, and those whose roadside bomb killed near that city on "We are not going to do a pell-mell rush into the city (of Fallujah)," Kimmitt said. "It's going to be deliberate, it will be precise, and it will be overwhelming. We will not rush in to make things worse. We will plan our way through this, and we will re-establish control of that city, and we will pacify that city." Kimmitt said the restraint shown by military leaders in the aftermath of the Fallujah attack in which the bodies of the victims were abused and desecrated may have prevented more carnage. "I think that there was a well-thought-out decision on the part of the Marines" not to rush headlong into the city, Kimmitt said, given the possibility that the insurgents could have had ambushes set up or might have used civilians as human shields. "While (the desecration of the victims' bodies) was dreadful, while it was unacceptable, while it was bestial," the general said, "a pre-emptive attack into the city could have taken a bad situation and made it even worse." But the lack of an immediate military response doesn't mean there won't be one, Kimmitt said. "We will be back in Fallujah," he vowed. "It will be at the time and the place of our choosing. We will hunt down the criminals. We will kill them or we will capture them, and we will pacify Fallujah." At a Baghdad Police Academy graduation ceremony today for 479 new Iraq police, the coalition's civilian administrator also condemned the attacks, according to chief spokesman Dan Senor, also at the news conference. Senor read reporters a portion of Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III's comments. "The acts we have seen were despicable and inexcusable," Senor quoted Bremer as saying. "They violate the tenets of all religions Islam included as well as the foundations of civilized society." Senor said Bremer promised the soldiers' and contractors' deaths "will not go unpunished." Senor relayed Bremer's expression of sympathy to the families of all civilian and military Iraqi and coalition families whose loved ones "have given their lives in the war to liberate Iraq and free it from terrorism." Bremer termed the attacks as "a crime under law and a crime against the future of Iraq," Senor said, and labeled the attackers as "cowards and ghouls" who represent the worst of society. Bremer also expressed his determination that Iraq's progress toward democracy would be undeterred by the attacks. "These murders are a painful outrage for us in the coalition, but they will not derail the march to stability and democracy in Iraq," Senor quoted from Bremer's statement.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bremer; fallujah; gnfi; iraq
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
A lot of folks are angry because we haven't leveled the place, but if we do that, the same folks (not to mention the America-hating Dims) will howl about the "slaughter of innocents".
We'll kick up some ops and more of them will end up dead...
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posted on
04/01/2004 9:47:42 AM PST
by
trebb
(Ain't God good . . .)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
I really doubt if our government has the stomach to really do what needs to be done. Words are one thing, actions another. I'm anxiously waiting to see what the response will be. Unfortunately, I suspect it will be woefully limp-wristed.
To: MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; TEXOKIE; Alamo-Girl; windchime; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; ...
A "deliberate, precise, overwhelming" response awaits the insurgents who killed four American contractors and five U.S. soldiers March 31, the coalition's military spokesman said at a Baghdad news conference today.
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posted on
04/01/2004 9:49:19 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
(TF160 was about terror.Delta was about terror.The Seals were about Terror!- xzins w/TF160-Reagan yrs)
To: SolutionsOnly
A half dozen A-10s should be able to handle it.
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posted on
04/01/2004 9:50:59 AM PST
by
CMailBag
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Our response should be deliberate.
We should deliberately use a stealth bomber and deliver a nuke that takes out the city and everone and everything in it.
Insatead there will be a measured spanking. Grow some balls there Mr. Bush.
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posted on
04/01/2004 9:51:09 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(G.W. Bush in 2004)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
I Like this the best.
"It will be at the time and the place of our choosing. We will hunt down the criminals. We will kill them or we will capture them, and we will pacify Fallujah."
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posted on
04/01/2004 9:54:12 AM PST
by
Kaslin
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
escorting a food convoy in Fallujah, Iraq... Just unbelievable. They were killed trying to bring those people food.
To: SolutionsOnly
Hopefully the political war strategists know what they are doing. I'd be PO'd if I was over there with a target on my back
Bad news
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posted on
04/01/2004 9:56:14 AM PST
by
Freesofar
To: Joe Boucher
Insatead there will be a measured spanking. Nothing wrong with that, depending on who's getting spanked. Aim high.
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:00:59 AM PST
by
Agnes Heep
(Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
To: Freesofar
I could never be president, because I'd have leveled the place...
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:01:16 AM PST
by
talleyman
(Satan is the Father of Lies - Satan is a Democrat)
To: SolutionsOnly
You are correct, the response that is needed is not the one that will be taken.
Osama Bin Laden once said that Somalia proved that America is a paper tiger.
The people there don't like us, they never have. Not one Muslim country in the world supports us. There is no way to win these people over.
The only next best thing we can hope for is that they will come to fear us, but that means we must be prepared to win.
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:01:26 AM PST
by
expatguy
To: SolutionsOnly
I really doubt if our government has the stomach to really do what needs to be done. Words are one thing, actions another. I'm anxiously waiting to see what the response will be. Unfortunately, I suspect it will be woefully limp-wristed.
You have to remember this administration does not run like bunch of cowards like the previous one did
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:01:26 AM PST
by
Kaslin
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To: Zack Nguyen
It hurts to even suggest it.
BUT wars are won by breaking the will of the opposition.
evidently the bad guys know this, hence the food target.the target disenheartens the local freindlies
PC reaction is a big mistake IMO, but then I am just an "armchair general"
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!!! OVERWHELMING RESPONSE, NOW!!!
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:04:07 AM PST
by
F14 Pilot
(John Fedayeen Kerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: Kaslin
The response I have in mind is a little bit more severe than 'not running'.
To: Freesofar
Well, this is what they say:
You don't win a war by dying for your country,
you win by making the other bastard die for his.
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:07:47 AM PST
by
RonHolzwarth
(I'm glad The Green Machine is on MY SIDE!!! (THANKS, guys!))
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democ
rats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:09:24 AM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: trebb
A lot of folks are angry because we haven't leveled the place, but if we do that, the same folks (not to mention the America-hating Dims) will howl about the "slaughter of innocents"."The same folks...will howl about the slaughter of innocents"
Not this boy.
Let the slaughter begin, the sooner the better.
Oderint dum metuant
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:11:17 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
To: SolutionsOnly
In run I meant like running away, like the previous administration did. I hope you know that
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:12:11 AM PST
by
Kaslin
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